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...roughly the size of Britain." Members of the Chicago exchange, including Ford Motor Co. and DuPont, have pledged to cut their emissions 4% by the end of this year from the levels they averaged from 1998 to 2000. They have already taken tens of millions of tons of greenhouse gases out of play, which sounds impressive until it's compared with the 6 billion--ton plume of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere by the U.S. each year...
...consumer offsets work? Take the nonprofit Carbonfund.org It sells absolution for personal and commercial emissions at a cut rate of $5.50 per ton of CO2. (A full year of carbon neutralization typically costs $99.) Carbonfund allows buyers to choose where their money winds up--in alternative energy, forest conservation or energy efficiency. Co-founder Eric Carlson says Carbonfund has offset about 40,000 tons of CO2 so far. That's not much. But its ultimate aim, he says, is to channel what support it gets into driving down the cost of clean energy--and, along the way, increase awareness...
...around,” she said. “I wasn’t sure what was going on.” Although almost every door in Cabot requires a swipe card, Zhang said that many students enter unchecked through the dining hall. “There are a ton of students who get off the shuttle and go into Cabot. It would be really easy to come in that way,” she said. “You’re so preoccupied with what you have to do, you don’t really notice...
...production processes. Motech, for example, "has a cost advantage compared with rivals in Japan and Europe," says Nicholas Teo, who covers the company for Macquarie Securities in Taipei. "Their focus is on efficiency rather than quality." Motech plans to more than double its annual production capacity this year; E-Ton Solar has similar plans...
...sophomore Brad Unger and senior Matt Brunnig pitched a three-hit shutout. In his four innings, Brunnig was perfect.“Brunnig was pretty awesome,” said sophomore hurler Shawn Haviland, who struggled on the mound in the series opener. “He threw a ton of strikes, and was huge for us since our middle and late relief has been a weakness for us lately.” “I think we settled down and put together our first real complete game of the season,” captain Morgan Brown said...